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Yokel writes:
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And in the very first month of my records, January 1980, the temperature
only rose above freezing on 6 of the 31 days. This year was actually close,
only 8 days in January with no frost.

That confuses me somewhat. Do you really mean that the minima were above
freezing on only 6 days, rather than the maxima?

I must admit that I'd forgotten all about that month, although a CET of
2.3 indicates that it was quite chilly. I suppose it just came as a bit
of an anticlimax compared with a year earlier.
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